• Made possible by Hans de Goede and cawilliamson
• Publicity by Josh Skidmore
• ArchLinux wiki page by Kye W. Shi

njkli/gpd-pocket

• In hopes of 4.15 having ootb support, here's a bit of a quick-fix(TM) - because why pollute AUR?
• The intent is to obsolete this repo ASAP!
• USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - read the sources and decide if it's your cup'o'tea
• My rant/review of this device

Install

# install the keyring
baseurl="https://github.com/njkli/archlinux/releases/download/keyring"
kring="$baseurl/njkli-keyring-20170902-1-any.pkg.tar.xz"
kring_sig="$baseurl/njkli-keyring-20170902-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig"
kring_files=("${kring}" "${kring_sig}")

for i in ${kring_files[@]}; do curl -OfssL $i; done

gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys A09383D0550C42E2D6CE7C822F90CB4F042140DC
gpg --verify njkli-keyring-20170902-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig


rm -rf njkli-keyring-20170902-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sig
sudo pacman -U --noconfirm njkli-keyring-20170902-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

sudo runuser -l -c \
'cat >> /etc/pacman.conf << EOL
[gpd-pocket]
SigLevel = Required TrustedOnly
Server = https://github.com/njkli/\$repo/releases/download/\$arch
EOL
'

sudo pacman -Syyu gpd-pocket-support

Features/Bugs:

• systemd-boot (EFI 64bit = grub is extraneous)
• GPD "ubuntu" BIOS

  sha256sum Rom_8MB_Tablet.bin
  # 7510862031b1c616e6079b6a41afe566bc7f5cb17e1a71ad48746c579f733a6e  Rom_8MB_Tablet.bin
  

• alsa-lib
• display rotation - xorg only
• display tearfree - xorg only
• touchscreen calibration - wayland and xorg
• touchscreen rotation - wayland and xorg
• pulseaudio
• wifi/bt

Comments

arch-anywhere / Anarchy Linux is worth checking out if painless Arch install is the goal. While Official Arch install docu provides more in-depth details, it isn't the quickest way of doing things.

Packages

• alsa-lib-gpd-pocket
• gpd-pocket-scrolling
• gpd-pocket-support
• linux-jwrdegoede